Name: Baogang HE Address: School of International and Political Studies, Deakin University, Melbourne Campus at Burwood, 221 Burwood Highway, Victoria 3125, AustraliaHome address: 83 Marianne Way, Mt. Waverley, 3149, Melbourne, Vic, AustraliaTele: 61-3-9244-3900 (W) Fax: 61-3-9244-3899E-mail: baogang.he@deakin.edu.au Date of Birth: 15 October, 1957Place of Birth: Baotou, ChinaCitizenship: Australian Appointment: Chair in International Studies at Deakin University since 4 September 2005 (I was also offered Chair in China’s Studies by Griffith University in June 2005)Reader (1st January 1999 -- 31 August 2005) at the University of TasmaniaSenior Research fellow, East Asian Institute, the National University of Singapore (July 2001--March 2004)Senior Lecturer (1st January 1997—31 December 1998) at the University of TasmaniaTenured position at the University of Tasmania since January 1996Lectureship at the University of Tasmania (1993-1996) (Not take postdoctoral fellowship being offered by the University of Queensland in 1993) Lectureship at the University of Hangzhou (1982-1984)Honorary fellow of the Centre for Research on Provincial China at the University of NSW (since 1999) Honorary Professor in the Institute of Rural Studies, Huazhong Normal University (2000-2006), the Rural Urbanization Center, Suzhou University (2000-2007), Zhejiang University (2006) and Taizhou College (2004-2006).Education PhD in Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, Thesis: "Three Models of Democracy: Intellectual and Moral Foundations of Liberal Democracy and Preconditions for its Establishment in Contemporary China", April 1990 - June 1993. MA in Philosophy, Dept of Philosophy, People's University of China, Thesis: "Cognitive Functions of Modes of Thinking", September 1984- September 1986. BA in Philosophy, Hangzhou University, January 1978- January 1982.

Teaching Experience and Field:Teaching Fellowship from the University of Chicago to support my teaching experiment on methodology ($4500) in 2003PhD, Master and Honour Supervision Four PhD students (on politics of national identity in China, post-modern theory of freedom, international dimensions of democratisation in East Asia, Political economy of the boundary question in Indonesia), Yingjie Guo was awarded his Ph.D degree in July 2001, now teaching in the University of Technology in Sydney; Becky Shelly in 2002 and Youxing Lang in 2004. The theses of Guo and Shelly were published by Routledge in 2003 and 2004 respectively.Current PhD students are: Eilidh John on religion and politics; Hannah Murphy on contesting the WTO by International Nongovernmental Organization; and Andrew McCann on the democratization of Burma; James Murphy on comparative politics of ethnicity in Indonesia and China; Michael Crips on Sino-Australian relations.Master’s students (on civil society in China, managing the Northern Ireland conflicts; Holly Williams on ethnic conflicts in Xingjiang)Honours students (on Habermas' theory of communicative rationality, the tragedies of political science, human rights regime in China, minority issue in China, international relations in Asia, and legitimacy and consent theory)Undergraduate courses (1993-2004)Political IdeologiesPolitics and Government in ChinaWestern Political Thought: Liberal DemocracyDemocratization in Eastern AsiaMarxism and ModernityAsian Political Thoughts Approaches to International Relations (Co-teaching) Honours unitsAsia in International RelationsWestern Political Theory Theory and Methodology Coordinator for honours program in international relationsCertificate of Tertiary Teaching Course, Tasmania University (July 1994)The average score of students’ evaluation is on the top range.An Introduction to Philosophy in the Department of Politics, Hangzhou University (February 1982- August 1984) for second- and third- year undergraduatesProfessional Membership

International Political Science Association, International Philosophy Association, International David Hume Studies Association, American Political Science Association, American Association of Asian Studies, British Political Science Association, European Association of Chinese Studies, Australian Political Science Association, Australian Chinese Studies Association, Tasmania Association of Asian Studies

Visiting PositionsJan-July 2008 visiting Professor at the Department of Communication, and visiting senior fellow at Hoover Institute, Stanford UniversityApril 2006 and October 2006, Visiting Scholar, Stanford University, U.S.May-August 2003, Reagan-Fascell Fellow, International Forum for Democratic Studies, National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C, U.S. June 2000 - February 2001 visiting Senior fellow at the East Asia Institute, the National University of SingaporeOctober - December 1996 visiting scholar at the Faculties of Social Science and Politics at the University of Cambridge, UKJuly-October 1996 visiting fellow at the International Institute for Asian Studies, Leiden, NetherlandsDecember 1995, a visiting fellow at the Sejong Institute, South Korea

October - November 1993, a visiting scholar participating in the Constitutionalism and China Project at Columbia University, USA.

October 1992-January 1993, a visiting scholar working on the discourse of civil society, sponsored by Professor Gordon White, at the Institute of Development Studies, Sussex University, UK.

February 1989-December 1989, a visiting scholar working on Western theories of democracy, sponsored by Professor Barry Hindess, at the Department of Sociology, The Faculties, Australian National University.

December 1987-January 1989, a visiting scholar working on theories of development, sponsored by Dr. C. L. Chiou, at the Department of Government, the University of Queensland.

The Fishkin Foundation (A$14,700), an international workshop on “Public Hearings System in China”, 1st July 2005, in Beijing.ARC small grant (A$14,500 for 2001), topic: Political Economy of Village Elections in Zhejiang

ARC Large Grant (A$130,000 for 1998-2000), Topic: Village Elections and Local Democracy in China

ARC Small Grant (A$14,000 in 1997), Topic: Civil Society and Political Development in China

ARC Small Grant from the University of Tasmania (1994 - 1996) Topic: Chinese Transition towards Democracy and Marketization (A$ 12600 in 1994, A$14000 in 1995 and A$10000 in 1996)

Awards

The article entitled, “The Dual Roles of Semi-Civil Society in Chinese Democratisation”, was judged the best article published in the Australian Journal of Political Science in 1994 and was awarded Mayer prize by the APSA.

Library Research and Travel Award (A$1,300) at the ANU (1994)

Being offered a Two-year Post-Doctoral Fellowship (1994-1995) by the University of Queensland; declined the offer to take a lectureship at the University of Tasmania

Visiting Fellowship (A$5000) from Sussex University in 1992

The essay entitled "On Transcendence", published by Graduate Forum, No. 2, 1985, has been awarded the best essay prize by graduate school at the People's University of China.

Administration A member of University Academic Board, Deakin University (since 1st July 2007) A member of RQF steering group, 2007, Deakin University A member of Research committee, Faculty of Arts, 2005-2007, Deakin A member of Arts Faculty board, Deakin University (2006-7) The Deputy Head of the School of Government (2004-2005), and coordinator as well as post-graduate coordinator (2004-2005)The Head of political Science discipline at the School of Government (1999-2000)Seminar Coordinator for East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore (2001-2002) Coordinator for honours program (1997-2000) A member of the Selection Committee of Faculty of Social Science (2000) A council member of the Australian Association of Chinese Studies (1996-7) An executive member of Asian Society of Tasmania (1995-1997) A member of the research committee in the department of political science, University of Tasmania (1994-1997).

Academic Service and LeadershipOrganizing workshops and conferences An international Conference on Deliberative Democracy and Public Consultation: Australia and China Compared, 29 September 2006, Deakin University, Australia, attended by 40 people.A workshop on China’s Rural Governance, 21 March 2006, Wenling, ChinaAn international conference on Asian federalism (9-10 Feb 2006, Melbourne, funded by the Japan Foundation); An international conference on public hearing system in China (1st July 2005, Beijing, in collaborating with Stanford University), A workshop on citizenship (31 May 2005, Hobart), An international conference on deliberative democracy (18-21 November 2004, Hangzhou, funded by Ford Foundation), A panel on Kymlicka’s theory of minority rights, two panels on democratization and the future of Aceh at the third International Convention of Asia Scholars, August 19-22, 2003, funded by the Faculties of Social Sciences in NUS,An international conference on local governance and local democracy in China (Feb 2003, funded by East Asian Institute, NUS), A workshop on Western liberalism and Asian minorities (Feb 2003, supported by Asian Research Institute, NUS).Referee for the following journals: the Journal of Political Philosophy, Asian Survey, Pacific Affairs, Studies in Comparative International Development, China Quarterly, Modern China, China Journal, Journal of New Political Science, International Journal of Asia Pacific, Japanese Journal of Political Science, Issues and Studies, Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, the Journal of Social Sciences (Taiwan), Copenhagen Journal of Asian Studies, China: An International Journal, other journals.Referee for publishers: Routledge and Ashgate. Chair sessions in APSA and ACSA, and discussant in number of national and international conferences Member of editorial board of New Political Science (USA since September 1999), China: An International Journal (National University of Singapore since 2001), Political Science in Asia (Seoul National University), Labour and Management in Development Journal (ANU), Political Science Forum (National Taiwan University, Taipei), China Rural Studies (Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China), Chinese Translation Series of Western Political Though, Fudan Political Science Review (Fudan University, Shanghai), Intellectual Series (East Normal University in Shanghai), and Local Governments and Governance (Sun Yat-sen university) One of the founding members and executive member of the Asian Consortium for Political Research initiated by Tokyo University and National Seoul UniversityAssessor for ARC Large Grants (1999, 2000, 2004-5), ARC Professorial Fellowship application (2006), UK Economic and Social Research Council's Professorial Fellowship application (2006-7)Assessor for Ph.D theses for the University of Queensland, the Australian National University, the University of Auckland, and the University of Hong Kong; Honour theses for Victoria University of TechnologyPublic Activities Organize four citizen juries in Bianyu village for village governance on 17 March, 19 March, 21 March and 26 June 2006 Organizing the second deliberative polling in Zeguo town, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province, China, April 2005, and a series of citizen jury in Bianyu village, Wenling, on 20 March 2006.Organizing a deliberative polling in Zeguo town, Wenling city, Zhejiang Province, China, April 2005, in collaboration with Professor James Fishkin at Stanford University (for the newspaper coverage, see Time, 25 April 05; China Economic Review, 15 June 05; New York time, 19 June 05). Being invited by the United Nation Development Program (UNDP) and the Ministry of Civic Affairs (MCA) in the PRC as an international expert to review the UN funded program “China Rural Official Training” in August 2001 (two weeks). Being invited by the UNDP and the MCA as an international expert to review the UN funded program “Urban Local Government Reform” in December 2002 in Beijing.Being invited by the MCA and the department of civic affairs in Hangzhou to discuss urban community participation in October 2003 in Hangzhou.Being invited by the Danish International Development Agency as an official delegation member to examine a political reform project in China in November 2003, and to examine the procedures for direct township elections in August 2004.An advisor to local governments for village elections Media Activities Radio InterviewDenmark National Radio on Chinese politics (August 1996), ABC Radio on the death of Deng Xiaoping (Feb 1997), SBS Radio on the issue of democratization in China (March 1997) and BBC Radio in London on the Chinese politics (1 June 1998), on village election (9 July 1998), SBS Radio on the issue of Taiwan Straits conflict (18 July 1999), the Voice of America on the PNG’s recognition of Taiwan (22 July 1999), SBS Radio on the impact of Lee’s remark on “special state-state relations” (13 August 1999), SBS Radio on Australian banning the sale of natural gas to Taiwan (27 August 1999), SBS Radio on “Howard doctrine” (30 Sep 1999), SBS Radio on Macau’s Return to China (23 December 1999), SBS Radio on the defection of the Karmapa Lama to India (12 January 2000), Singapore International Radio on Chen Shui-bian’s presidential inauguration (19 May 2000), Singapore International Radio on security talks between China and USA (6 July 2000), Singapore International Radio on strategic partnerships (21 July 2001), the Voice of America (VOA) on Hong Kong demonstration (2 July 2003), VOA on China (November 3, 2003). Television InterviewInterviewed by SBS Television on Paul Keating’s visit to China (1993), Channel NewsAsia on Chen Shui-bian’s presidential inauguration (20 May 2000, live show), Channel NewsAsia on Straits Relationship (11 July 2000); Special program (half hour) in Channel NewsAsia on the Taiwan question (21 July 2000), MediaCorp on the legislature election in Taiwan (7 August 2001), MediaCorp on politics of the Olympics (7 September 2000); MediaCorp on Bush’s visit to China (21 Feb 2002); MediaCorp on the Politics in Taiwan (15 May 2002), the Voice of America, the live show "Issues and Opinions" on village elections and the prospect of Chinese democracy (one hour, July 16, 2003), MediaCorp on September 11 (11 September 2003). Special Program ContributorsMonthly contribution to the China program (30 minutes) of the BBC (London), commenting on village elections and rural affairs in China (1999). Contributor to China in Perspective Program (45 minutes) of Radio Free Asia on Bush’s visit to China (21 Feb 2002), on the role of international community in Chinese democratization (22 May 2003), and on North Korea issue on July 31, 2003. Publications in English(1) The Authored Book 1. The Democratisation of China. London: Routledge, 1996, ISBN: 0-415-14764-6, the total pages 276. The book has three prints (1996, 1998, 2000) and is reviewed by Dennis Woodward, in Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 32, no. 3. 1997, 500; Jocelyn Chey, in The Journal of the Oriental Society of Australia, vols. 27-28, 1995-6, 215-6; Michael J. Sullivan, in The China Journal, no. 39, Jan 1998, 103-5; Alvin Y. So, in China Information, vol. 7, no. 3, 1997-8, 149-151; Ann Kent, in Pacific Affairs, vol. 70, no. 4, Winter 1997-8, 587-8; Bruce McFarlane, in Journal of Contemporary Asia, vol. 28, no. 1, 1988, pp. 138-9; Edmund Fung, in Political Science (The New Zealand Political Science Association), Vol. 50, No. 2, 1999, pp. 299-301; Peter T. Manicas, in China Review International, Vol. 5, No. 2, Fall 1998, pp. 424-28; Yiu-Chung Wong, in Hong Kong Journal of Social Sciences, No. 14, Summer 1999, pp. 229-235; Stanley Rosen, in China Quarterly, No. 163, September 2000, pp. 846-847; Shu Chong, Beijing Spring, No. 2, 2001, p. 81.

"Cognitive Function of the Mode of Thinking", the Second Chinese Cognitive Science Association Conference, Hai Long Jiang, China, June 1985. "Rawls' Conception of Liberty and Chinese Problem of Liberalization", Conference on Political Culture in Contemporary China, Heng Yiang, China, October, 1987. "Political Culture and Participation in Maoist and Dengist China", with Dr C.L. Chiou, Australasian Political Studies Association Conference, University of New England, Armidale, Australia, 26-28 August, 1988. "A Critique of Chinese Paternalistic Authority", the Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference, University of Melbourne, Australia, 3-6 July, 1989. "Legitimacy and Ideology in Chinese Politics", China 40 Years after the Revolution Conference, Sydney University, Australia, 27-28 September, 1989. "Emergent Civic Society in China? Some Conceptual and Empirical Misgivings", with David Kelly, the Development of Civic Society in Communist Systems Conference, Australian National University, 9th March, 1990. "Chinese Dissidents' Ideas of Democracy", the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart, 23-26 September, 1990. "Assessments of the Cultural Revolution and Models of Democracy: The Rise and Decline of the Radical Ideas of Populist Democracy", the Cultural Revolution in Retrospect: 25 Years On, Australian National University, 16-17 May, 1991. "Political Institutional Changes and Chinese Democratization", (Invited) the Future of China in the Next Century Conference, Taibei, 1-3 August, 1991. "Infusing Morality into Political Institutions", the Conference of Restoration in China: "The Empire Strikes Back", University of Sydney, 10-11 July, 1992. "Hume's Supposition of Knavery in Institutional Design", the Australian Political Studies Association Conference, Australian National University, 30 Sept.-2 Oct., 1992. "A Comparative Study of the Discourse of Civil Society both in China and Taiwan", the Conference of the Future of East Asian Socialism: Eastern Europe or the Four Little Dragons, Australian National University, 13-15 January, 1993. "An Analytical Investigation of Hume's Supposition of Knavery in Institutional Design", the International 20th Hume Conference, the University of Ottawa, 6-10 July, 1993, Canada. "Emergency Power and Exception in a Transition towards Democracy: A Liberal Critique of Carl Schmitt's Theory of the Exception", the Australian Law and society Conference, 10-12 December, 1993, Macquarie University, Sydney. "Pluralism and Democracy in China", the International Political Science Association Conference, Berlin, 21-5 August 1994. "Chinese Opposition in Exile", (invited) the Workshop of Political Oppositions in East and Southeast Asia, Perth, 2 September 1994. "Democratic Implications of Civil Society", A Changing China in a Changing World, 10th Annual Meeting of Chinese Scholars of Political Science and International Studies, 22-25 August, 1995, the Chinese University of Hong Kong. "Does Confucianism hinder the development of democracy?" the Chinese Culture and Society in the 1990s, 26-7 August, 1995, Monash University." "The Boundary Problem: Rustow's Theory Revisited against the Experiences of Democratisation in Russia, South Korea and Taiwan". The Australian Association for Communist and Post-Communist Studies, 23-4 September 1995, La Trobe University. "Civil Society as a New Legitimator", the ASEAN Inter-University Seminar on Issues in Social Development in Mid 1990s in Southeast Asia in Cebu, November 28-30, 1995. "Political Parties and Party System in China", (invited) the International Conference on Political Parties and Party System in Asia, organised by Friedrich-Naumann-Stiftung Foundation, 15-17 March 1996, Singapore, and 23-25 August 1996, Malaysia. "A Class Analysis of China's Transition towards Marketization and Democratization", the IPSA Study Group Conference on Socialism, Capitalism, and Democracy, 10-11 August 1996, Arhus, Denmark. "A Comparative Study of National Identities and Democratization in Russia and China", the 11th European Association for Chinese Studies Conference on China and the Outer World, 4-7 September 1996, Barcelona. "The Four Notions of Global Justice", the conference on post-modern politics and justice, 18-19 September, Bristol, UK. "The Cultural Sources of Authority and the Problem of Legitimacy in China", the British Association for Chinese Studies Conference on the Authority in China, 20-22 September 1996, Newnham College, the University of Cambridge, UK. "Can W. Kymlicka's Theory of Minority Rights be Applied in East Asia", the International Conference on Asian Minority Cultures in Transition: Diversity, Identities, and Encounters, 12-15 December 1996, Munster, Germany. "An Analysis of Nationalist versus Democratic Solution to the Boundary Problem in China", Chinese Studies Association of Australia Conference, 16-18 July, 1997, Adelaide; "An Analysis of Nationalist versus Democratic Solution to the Boundary Problem in China", (invited), Taiwan Update 1997: Taiwan, Hong Kong and PRC Relations, 14-15 August, 1997, Brisbane. "Global Democracy and the National Boundary Problem", The 16th International Political Science Association Congress, 17-21 August, 1997 Seoul. "The Roles of Civil Society in Defining the Boundary of a Political Community", The First Regional Conference on Social Movements: Comparing Social Movements, The International Sociology Association, 8-10 September 1997, Tel Aviv, Israel. “Taiwan’s Nationalism and Democratization”, (invited), Taiwan Update Conference, 25-26 Februry 1999, the Monash University, Australia. “A Comparative Study of Nationalism in China and Taiwan”, “Confucian Critique of W. Kymlicka’s Theory of Minority Rights”, “A Survey Report on Village Election in Zhejiang”, The Australian Association of Chinese Studies conference, 8-10 July 1999, Perth, Australia. “The Responsibility of China’s Taiwan Policy and the Democratization of its Greater Power”, (invited) an International Conference on the PRC at Fifty: Power and Responsibility, 28-29 October 1999, ANU, Australia. “Chinese Commitment to the Autonomy of Tibet”, (invited), the International Workshop on Autonomy and Self-determination, Heritage Village, New Delhi, India, 10-12 November 1999. “Society, Democratization and Civil Society”, (invited), Into the 21 Century: Challenge for Hong Kong and the Asia-Pacific Region, the Institute of Asian Studies, the University of Hong Kong, 13-15 April, 2000. “A Confucian Response to Kymlicka’s Theory of Minority Rights: The Question of Non-Assimilation”, (invited), the International Conference on Self, Family and Community: Aspect of Chinese and Western Ethics, The Department of Philosophy, the National University of Singapore, 12-13 May 2000. “Democratization, Civil Society and the National Identity Question in East Asia”, (invited), Cosmopolis: Democratizing Global Economy and Culture, Helsinki, 2-4 June 2000. “Village Representative Assembly and Village Election”, (invited), Election and China’s Future, Princeton, 17-18 June 2000. “Political Economy of Village Election in Zhejinag”, “Chinese Theories and Practice of Autonomy”, International Political Science Congress, Quebeck, Canada, 31 July – 5 August 2000. “Cosmopolitanism and East Asia”, (invited), Asian Confederation Workshop, organized by European Academy of Bolzano, Italy, 24-26 August, 2000. “Sovereignty and Taiwan Question”, International Workshop on National Sovereignty and Globalization, Organized by French Embassy and National University of Singapore, 4-8 September 2000. “Theories of Democracy and Village Election” (invited), the International Conference on Village Politics, organized by the Institute of Rural Studies, China’s Central Normal University, 14-16 October 2000. “Kinship and Village Election in Zhejiang” (invited), Social Change and Enterprise in China’s Provinces, 6th Annual Workshop, Shanxi University, Taiyuan, 23-26 October 2000, sponsored by UNSW-UTS Center for Research on Provincial China. Chairing a session and discussing the paper, and giving a paper “Why China is so difficult to establish democracy?” (invited) at the conference of the responses of intellectuals to the challenges of the 21st century in China and Eastern Europe, December 15-16, 2000, organized by the Center d’Etudes et de Recherches Internationales (CERI), the Center for Research on Contemporary China (CEFC), Hong Kong. “Why China is so difficult to Establish Democracy” (invited) at the workshop on Democracy, Nationalism and Self-determination, organized by Griffith University, Australia, 27-28 January 2001. “Reflection on the Question of Sovereignty” (invited) at the Symposium on the Changing Nature of the State, organized by Japan Association of International Relations, Oxford University Press and Asahi Shimbun, in the University of Tokyo, 30-31 January 2001. “Civil Society and the National Identity Question in East Asia” (invited), a keynote paper at Civil Society in Asia Symposium, Brisbane, Griffith University, 10-12 July 2001. “Globalization and Chinese Civilization”, paper given at Globalization and Its Challenges in the 21st Century, 2001 Hong Kong Convention of International Studies, July 26-28, 2001, HK. “Global Civil Society, World Citizenship and the National Boundary/Identity Question in East Asia” (invited), a keynote paper at the International Workshop on Transnational Activism and Problems of Democracy in East and Southeast Asia, Nordic Institute of Asian Studies and Department of Political Science, Sodertorn University College, Stockholm, Sweden, 14-15 September 2001. “In Search of the Mixed Regime: Regime Change and Regime Maintenance in China”, (invited), the paper presented at the workshop on Regime Change and Regime Maintenance in Asia and the Pacific, the Australian National University, Canberra, 12-13 February 2002. “Theorizing Village Elections: Three Models of Democracy Revisited”, (invited), the paper presented at the International Conference on Discourse on Political Reform and Democratization in East and Southeast Asia in the Light of New Process of Regional Community-Building, Gerhard-Mercator University Duisburg, Duisburg, Germany, May 22-24, 2002. “China’s Governance: Theory and Practice”, (invited), at the international workshop ‘Democratic Governance in Your Backyard’, the University of Tokyo, Japan, 22-23 January 2003; giving a seminar at the Faculty of Law, the University of Koyto, Japan, 24 Jan 03. "Citizenship and Cultural Equality", (invited), at Challenging Citizenship: Membership and Identity in a Global Age, An International Conference organized by the Philosophy Department, NUS, 11-13 Jan 2003. “Sovereignty and Taiwan Question: Sino-US Relations from a Perspective of Taiwan’s UN Seat and US Foreign Policy”, (invited) American Political Science Association Conference, 27-31 August 2003 in Philadelphia, USA. “SARS and the Freedom of the Press: Has the Chinese Government Learnt a Lesson?” EAI Workshop on SARS in Greater China: Crises and Responses, 7 November 2003, Singapore. “Village Elections, Rural Governance and the Practice of the Mixed Regime: The Role of the Party in Chinese Democratization”, International Conference on the Chinese Communist Party in a New Era: Renewal and Reform, 9-10 December 2003, East Asian Institute, the National University of Singapore. “Theories of International Justice: An East Asian Perspective”, (invited) Opening Speech, the International Symposium on Global Justice and Inter-Cultural Dialogues sponsored by Institute for Modern Chinese Thought and Cultural Studies of ECNU, China; Carnegie Council for Ethics and International Affairs, USA; University of Bergen, Norway, January 8-12, 2004, Shanghai. “Chinese Roads toward Democracy: a Theoretical Reflection on Village Elections,” (invited), the International Conference on Democracy in Asia, Europe, and the World: Toward a Universal Definition?, 3-4 June 2004, Seoul Tower Hotel, Seoul, Korea, organized and sponsored by National Seoul University, and Europe-Asia Foundation. “Three Paradigms for the Taiwan Question”, (invited) the international conference on the Challenge for Taiwan, 21 June 2004, organized by East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore. “Participatory and Deliberative Institutions in China”, (invited), presented at the Grassroots Political Reform in Contemporary China Conference, October 29-31, 2004, Fairbank Center, Harvard University.“Deliberation and Urban Governance”, (invited), an International Conference on Grassroots Democracy and Local Governance in China during the Reform Era, Organized by Chinese Association of Political Science and Center for China Studies, National Chengchi University, Sponsored by Mainland Affairs Council, ROC, Taipei, November 2-4, 2004. “Chinese path towards democracy: Qualitative divergence, democratic challenge and the mixed regime”, (invited), Conference on Beliefs, Norms and Values in Cross-National Surveys, Sanjo Conference Hall, University of Tokyo, Tokyo, December 7 and 8, 2004.“Social Protests and Rural Democracy in China: How Do Rural Social Protests Promote Village Democracy?” (invited), an international conference on Emerging Social Movements in China, organised by the Contemporary French Centre for China Studies (CEFC) and University of Hong Kong. March 23-24, 2005. “Contesting ‘Globalisation from Above’: Prospects for the Development of a Global Social Contract” (with Hannah Murphy), (invited), an international conference on 'Civil Society, Religion and Global Governance: Paradigms of Power and Persuasion, ANU, 1-2 September 2005.“In Search for a Normative Order in East Asia”, (invited), 'International Conference on Science and Technology for Sustainability, The Science Council of Japan, Kyoto International Conference Hall, September 9-10, 2005. “Asian Ideas of Regionalism”, (Invited) an international conference on Institutionalizing Northeast Asia: Making the Impossible Possible?, United Nations University and Aoyama Gakuin University, Tokyo, 20-22 September 2005.“Chinese Local Governance”, ACPR’s First Joint Sessions of Workshops, the University of Tokyo, September 27-29, 2005, Tokyo, Japan.“Finding the Funding: Lessons Learned by the Ford Foundation and Ministry of civic Affairs”, (invited), Collaborative governance in the Asia pacific, the Whistler Forum’s 2005 Summit on citizen Engagement, Whistler, British Columbia, Canada, November 9-11, 2005. "Authoritarian Deliberation: Deliberative Turn in Chinese Political Development", Association for Asian Studies, April 6-9, 2006, San Francisco, California, USA."Deliberative Development in China," Workshop on Governance-Driven Democratization: Exploring the Theoretical Terrain and Recent Developments in China, April 10-11, at the University of British Columbia."Can Chinese Deliberative Institutions be Sustainable?", the International Symposium on the Development of the Non-state Sector, Local Governance and Sustainable Development in China, June 24-25, 2006, Hangzhou, China, co-organized by Department of Political Science, Zhejiang University and China Policy Institute，Nottingham University."International Accommodation of the Rise of China," and "Deliberative Democracy in China?" IPSA World Congress, July 9-13, 2006, Fukuoka, Japan."Middle Class and Democratization in China", the workshop on Middle Class: India and China Compared, 11th August, 2006, Wollongong University."Deliberative Democracy in an Unlikely Place: Deliberative Polling in China", Paper presented at the Conference on Democratization in Greater China, Stanford University, October 20-21, 2006. "Multinational versus Asymmetric Federalism for Divided Societies" paper presented at International Workshop on Constitutional Designs for Divided Societies, University of Toronto, 3-4 November 2006.“The Legitimacy of the National Boundary: Does Deliberative Democracy offer something New/” , the paper presented at an international conference on Legitimacy and Reflection on Modernity, organized by Huadong Normal University, Shanghai, China, 9-10 June 2007.“Deliberative Democracy at Village: An Experimental Study of Deliberative Forum”, the paper presented an international conference on village self-government and new rural construction, organized by Huazhong Normal University, Wuhan, China, 16-17 June 2007.Guest Lectures and Seminars "The Use of Language in Chinese Political Participation", Chinese Centre, Asian Studies, Australian National University, April 13, 1989. "Chinese Paternalistic Mode of Democracy", Department of Sociology, the Faculties, Australian National University, May 11, 1989. "Dual Roles of Civil Society in Chinese Democracy", the Institute of Sinology, the University of Leiden, the Netherlands, December 11, 1992. "On Political Development and Democracy in China", at the China's University of Oil, Beijing, 27 October 1994. lecture for Young Diplomats Programs organized by Australian Institute of International Affairs and Department of Education, Community and Cultural Development, 1995 "An Analytical Analysis of Hume's Supposition of Knavery for Institutional Design", at the University of Hangzhou, 11 November 1996. "Some Questions Concerning the Development of Civil Society in China", at the Political Academy of the Chinese Air Force in Shanghai, 11 January 1996. "Re-inventing Taiwan", the 1996 George Wilson Lecture, Australia-Asia Society Tasmania, Hobart, 16 May 1996. “Democratic Peace Theory and Taiwan Straits Conflicts”, Department of International Relations, the ANU, 31 May 1998. “Theories of Justice and Global Justice”, Department of Philosophy, the University of Suzhou, June 1998. “Confucianism and Democracy”, Department of Philosophy, the National University of Singapore, 9 October 2000. “Four Lectures on Political Liberalism”, Department of Political Science, the University of Suzhou, 17-20 October 2000. “Eight Lectures on Methodology”, Rural Institute, Central China Normal University, Wuhan, October 2002. “Village Citizenship and the Prospect of Chinese Democracy”, Fairbank Center for East Asian Research, Harvard University, June 4, 2003. “How Democratic are Village Elections in China” International Forum for Democracy, the National Endowment for Democracy, Washington, D.C., June 10, 2003. “Democratizing Governance in China: A Conversation with Professor Baogang He”, a special workshop organized by the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, the University of British Columbia, Canada, November 7, 2005. Referees Professor Wang Gungwu, the Director of East Asian Institute, National University of Singapore, 10 Kent Ridge Crescent, Singapore, telephone: 6775-2033; fax: 6779-3409, email:, eaiwgw@nus.edu.sg Professor Andrew Nathan, the Head of East Asian Institute, Columbia University, 116 Street and Broadway, New York, NY 10027, USA, Email: ajn1@columbia.edu Professor Barry Hindess, Dept of Political Science, Research School of Social Sciences, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA, Tele: 61-2-62492134, bxh306@coombs.anu.edu.au Professor David D. G. Goodman, Director of Institute for International Studies, University of Technology, Sydney, PO Box 123 Broadway, NSW 2007, Australia, Tele: 61-2-9330-1574, Fax: 61-2-9330-1578, Email: DSG.Goodman@uts.edu.au Professor John Unger, the Head of Contemporary China Centre, Research School of Pacific Studies, Australian National University, GPO Box 4, Canberra, ACT 0200, AUSTRALIA, Tele: 61-2-6249-4260, Fax: 61-2-6257-3642, Email: unger@coombs.anu.edu.au